Ellen is an LCSW and also author of Beyond Measure: A MemoirAbout Short Stature & Inner Growth as well as co-author of The Diet Survivor's Handbook& Beyond A Shadow of a Diet. Syd Arthur, her first novel, was published by Pearlsong Press in April 2011. The novel depicts the adventures of a middle aged Jewish woman who embarks on a spiritual search to the dismay of her Mah Jongg group & family.

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